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Article: Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- August 24, 1994
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The Historical Jesus" is back. For the third time, we are told. The resurgence of interest in the Jesus of history is evidenced not only by the books from Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan and Geza Vermes but also by the publication of The Five Gospels (Polebridge/Macmillan), reflecting the conclusions of R. W. Funk's Jesus Seminar in which Borg and Crossan are active participants. Whether or not these works represent a "third Quest of the historical Jesus," it is instructive to view them in light of earlier efforts to recover Jesus "as he really was," and to ask whether the second coming of the liberal Jesus is at hand.
On the whole, 19th-century (German) ...